Yasuharu Koike giving a fellow soldier a haircut

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Alameda Japanese American History Project: World War II

Caption below photo: Yasuharu Koike cuts the hair of a friend while serving somewhere in the steaming hot jungles of Burma during WWII. At right is a Chinese assistant. Koike was a member of the MIS, the Military Intelligence Service. Photo August 1944. Koike hailed from Alameda, CA.

August, 1944

Myanmar

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Courtesy of Alameda Japanese American History Project, Densho

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